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by IfOnlyYouKnew 2744 days ago
The NYT directly makes the accusation that private messages were shared without consent:

“This is just giving third parties permission to harvest data without you being informed of it or giving consent to it,” said David Vladeck, who formerly ran the F.T.C.’s consumer protection bureau. “I don’t understand how this unconsented-to data harvesting can at all be justified under the consent decree.”

Facebook, if you carefully parse their statement, does not deny this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18714352